The AGM will commence at 7.00pm and is expected to conclude by 7.30pm.
Sapper Clay was a First World War Royal Engineer from Nuneaton, so how come his medal was dug up 100 years later in a garden in the Surrey Hills?
The search for this old soldier’s family uncovered a remarkable series of coincidences spanning 19th century brickmaking in Warwickshire, the Somme, Gallipoli, a disastrous gas accident, family and estrangement and bizarrely, would reach further back in time to connect with a landmark in women’s literature – George Eliot’s first story collection published in 1857.
Just who was Sapper Clement Cecil Clay R.E.? John Griffiths-Colby will reveal all.
John has a wide-ranging background in journalism, business consultancy, public speaking and as a funeral celebrant. He has written extensively for national and regional magazines, providing satirical and lifestyle columns for the New Statesman and Italian Bike magazines respectively.